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Diplo & Damian Lazarus - Don't Be Afraid (feat. Jungle)
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Paul Woolford ramps up the percussion and injects a deep, rolling bassline, with Eliza Rose’s vocal floating above carnival-tinged drums to deliver a certified festival weapon — hypnotic, joyful and instantly dancefloor-ready. Taking Playa Paradiso into full carnival-euphoria mode, Woolford flips DJ Tennis and Eliza Rose’s Balearic original into a percussive, sun-kissed club trip powered by rhythmic tropical energy and nostalgic loon-call flourishes.

Playa Paradiso (Paul Woolford Remix)

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Artist: Panka Panka
Track:  Is Ma Jaus (Cabizbajo's Jackin Remix)
Label: Playground Records
Release date: 18/12/2025
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PREMIERE: Panka Panka - Is Ma Jaus (Cabizbajo's Jackin Remix) [Playground Records]

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Serbian DJ/producer Mene returns to Rebellion for his second appearance on the label with his latest EP, ‘Hustle Flow’. Renowned for his adept ability to deliver slick house cuts with a darker edge, Mene has released music via esteemed labels such as Desolat, Revival New York, Moxy Muzik, and Hottrax, among others. Now his tripped-out three-tracker on Damian Lazarus’ imprint, out on 12th December, delivers the perfect journey as we dive deeper into the late-night, moody hours of club season.
The title track, ‘Depth Over Distance,’ is a dark, brooding cut where idiosyncratic arpeggiated synths meet wild cosmic stabs and slick male vocals. Up next, ‘Our Town’ sees Mene up the ante, with a driving low-end and playful percussive rhythms that meander through an eerie key. Closing the EP, ‘At Least’ dials up the energy, brimming with grit and intensity, the cut oozes percussive flair, laid over breathy vocal textures.

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1) Hustle Flow
2) Our Town 
3) At Least


Mene - Hustle Flow

Predex gives listeners an exclusive first listen to a selection of his unreleased tracks in our latest podcast. The mix features three cuts from his latest album, "Momentum". Click the button to stream the project. 

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Predex - ID
Predex - ID
Predex & Kuntay Cevizci - Anthem
Predex & ELIF - ID
Predex - ID
Predex & Samet Gunal - Portomento
Predex - ID
Predex - ID
Predex & Kendi - LEON 99
Predex - Need Your Love 
Predex - ID
Predex - Can’t Stop
Predex & Copa Vida - ID Edit

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Track:  Blast (Dodi Palese Remix) 
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Following on from the Moment in the Dark EP featuring remixes from Adam Port, Satori and Tibi Dabo, Damian Lazarus celebrates the tenth anniversary of his acclaimed debut album Smoke the Monster Out, with the release of a remastered and expanded edition on his own label Crosstown Rebels.

A decade ago I released my debut solo album on the label Get physical. It was the first time I’d let myself loose in the studio and what came out was a psychedelic collection of extremely strange and bizarre songs. I wanted to make an album full of my inspirations and influences, for exotic after parties, and with no consideration about necessarily getting played in the clubs. It divided opinion at the time and seemed to defy easy categorisation. My own sonic curveball. Here we are ten years on. I’m pleased to report that ‘Smoke The Monster Out’ is still as weird as it ever was. Still genre proof. Still an ‘album’ in an era of tracks and playlists. Now forthcoming on Crosstown Rebels, remastered and with three bonus tracks from the original studio sessions, it’s ready to confuse everyone all over again!

Smoke The Monster Out, originally released in 2009, was the first time Damian had written and produced his own music. Known across the globe for founding the Crosstown Rebels label, his captivating DJ sets and divergent Lazpod podcast series, his debut album is an emotional and humorous expression of his genre-defying imagination.

Following ongoing experimentation with lyric writing and production, Damian invited Arthur Jeffes (son of the Penguin Café Orchestra’s Simon Jeffes), Classic records head honcho Luke Solomon and Mark Ralph (then a member of Filthy Dukes and now a world renowned producer for the likes of Clean Bandit, Years & Years, and Jax Jones) into the studio with him. The result was a unique blend of music that represents Lazarus’ personality and vast experience of the dark and light moments that are captured on the dancefloor. The Guardian went as far as describing the album in 2009 as: “Less troubled and deep than Björk's Debut, it still captures the atmosphere of late-night clubland – the transcendent freedom, the fuzzy unreality, the implicit emptiness, the dysfunction – with a similar potent accuracy. That it does so by fusing Ricardo Villalobos and Robert Wyatt, and slipping in a Scott Walker cover, might explain why it is not being hailed as one of the crossover albums of the year. But it is."

Ten years on the album that draws on inspiration from: techno and house, rock and pop and drum and bass, still remains as challenging and exciting as it was upon its initial release and will capture the attention of both new and old fans alike.

Everything about Smoke The Monster Out feels idiosyncratic, direct and carefully thought-out: both the artwork and the title (which references Alice in Wonderland) evoke Lazarus’s interest in the loss and the return of innocence, the imagery of fairytale fables, and the battle to control and satisfy the emotions without losing sight of humour. Lazarus has a vision, and isn’t afraid to realize it. He continues to live this vision through the music released on his label, the groundbreaking festival he curates Day Zero and the story that unfolds during his DJ sets to audiences around the world every week.

Damian Lazarus - Come And Play

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Damian Lazarus presents ‘Mountain’ - the opening single from his first solo album for over 10 years.

Released on the 24th July, ‘Mountain’ is a fusion of darkness and light circumnavigating the outer edges of the dance floor. Complete with a Balearic infused remix from Tornado Wallace and deep-chugging transcendental Tibi Dabo Remix to throw the arc wider still. This new body of work, written and recorded by Lazarus at home in Italy during lockdown, is entitled ‘Flourish” and will be released on the 4th September on Crosstown Rebels.

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Damian Lazarus - Mountain (Tornado Wallace Remix)

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The ends of days are ones with which Damian Lazarus is familiar, but, much like his biblical namesake, he too, has come back from the brink and risen to fight on, his career is interwoven with themes of survival and re-birth. Fittingly then, his second solo album does not wallow in our current dark times, but charts a path of hope. Flourish, offers a glimpse of a new world worth living in and surviving for.

Lazarus is a true DJ, an artist at home taking crowds on incredible journeys across the globe. He averages 150 + shows a year, including his own landmark events like Day Zero and Get Lost. He is nothing if not restless, no down time for Damian. Since February he has holed himself in the studio finalizing and reforming ideas that had been brewing for years. It took a pandemic to ground the DJ, but what emerged is a more fully realized vision of Lazarus as producer.

Flourish takes us through the many lives of Damian Lazarus, who, as he has grown older, and traversed the globe, has come to more deeply examine the role the dance floor plays in his own life and that of others. With parties cancelled, it would have been easy to wallow, but instead urgency took hold, and isolated Italian countryside Damian took the space to tackle the larger questions he has been grappling with for years.

“My early ideas about a new album were quite dark, pessimistic even, I had long been thinking and worrying about the problems of the world. Then the global pandemic and subsequent lockdown began and my fears seemed to become reality. But while writing these themes actually started to transform in an uplifting way. The new songs came together quite quickly, with renewed impetus, and mutated into a more positive outlook. Questions about faith, religion and spirituality all appeared amidst the darkness and fear, but in those times of quiet solitude and creation, I came to realise we can emerge into the sun and flourish on the other side.”

As anyone who has watched Lazarus DJ can attest, his inspirations are deep and varied, criss crossing show tunes, drum n bass, jazz, electro, soul, house, techno and everything in-between. This album reflects his immersion in a multitude of scenes over the years, from the early days of London drum n bass, to his role as a figurehead in the electroclash scene, and of course the significant impact his Crosstown Rebels label has had on contemporary underground house and techno. His shapeshifting is down to his relentless passion for new sounds and scenes, and it’s this dedication to the music that has seen him survive the boom and bust cycles and fads of club culture. It is this commitment to the outer edges of the dancefloor that has welcomed a resurgence of Crosstown as of late, a renewed reminder of Damian’s passion for showcasing the rising and revered alike

Flourish is far from a box of functional DJ tools, in the same way as Damian’s debut album Smoke The Monster Out or the more worldly outings in his brace of albums with the Ancient Moons. It’s a personal, brave and varied body of work. It’s also the work of an artist who has grown over the ten years since his last solo album. Lazarus plays with nuances of texture, tempo and style to create a rich and dense album that takes us on an odyssey that is at times both dark and uplifting. Vocals of his own cast an intimate shadow over the album with those of his sole collaborator Jem Cooke offering a soothing balance amidst the madness.

Damian Lazarus - Into The Sun

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Damian Lazarus - Come And Play

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